Trustworthy Agentic Systems (TAS 2026)
Welcome
Welcome to TAS 2026: Trustworthy Agentic Systems, a symposium in the AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series. Agentic systems, in which large language models (LLMs) plan, invoke tools, retrieve external knowledge, and act autonomously over multiple steps, are moving from research prototypes into consequential, real-world decision making. Our ability to guarantee that these systems are reliable, private, safe, and accountable has not kept pace. TAS convenes the artificial intelligence community to treat responsibility as a first-class design objective that is engineered, measured, and governed across the full lifecycle of an agent. The symposium is organized around two complementary themes:
- Trustworthy agentic systems by design : subgroup robustness, privacy-preserving and federated learning, safety and alignment, adversarial robustness, explainability, plan and autonomy specification, reliable and distributed execution, and rigorous evaluation of multi-step agent behavior.
- Accountable governance and societal impact : auditing and assurance, standards alignment (NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC, EU AI Act), human oversight and accountability, societal impact, and open shared infrastructure. The two and one-half day format prioritizes discussion and collaborative production over passive presentation. Rather than a sequence of talks, TAS is built around shared target problems, working groups, and breakout sessions that produce concrete artifacts: open benchmarks, evaluation protocols, red-teaming playbooks, and a community research roadmap.
TAS 2026 • Part of the AAAI Fall Symposium Series
Dates: November 5–7, 2026 Location: Westin Arlington, Arlington, Virginia, USA Format: In person (per AAAI policy) Contacts: sumon@case.edu, adas@uakron.edu, shahnewazkarim-sakib@utc.edu, shibbir@txstate.edu
Note: This site is under construction. Items marked TBA will be updated as the program is finalized.
Organizing Committee
Dr. Anindya Bijoy Das
Co-Chair
University of Akron, USA
Dr. Sumon Biswas
Co-Chair
Case Western Reserve University, USA
Dr. Shahnewaz Karim Sakib
Co-Chair
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA
Dr. Shibbir Ahmed
Co-Chair
Texas State University, USA
Full bios are available on the Organization page.
Participation
TAS welcomes full papers, short papers, position statements, and one-page abstracts, as well as statements of interest from prospective attendees. Speculative work and work in progress are encouraged alongside completed results.
Submission Types
Submissions are formatted using the AAAI-26 author kit.
- Full Papers (4-8 pages): for novel research, artifact submissions, or strong works in progress.
- Short Papers (2-4 pages): for positions, smaller artifacts, and early work in progress.
- Abstracts (1 page): for sharing ideas (non-archival only).
- Submission site: EasyChair (link to be posted here).
- Review process: Each submission will be reviewed by members of the program committee for relevance, soundness, and potential to stimulate discussion.
Important Dates
The “Preferred” submission round, with the option to be included in the AAAI proceedings:
- Submission deadline: September 1, 2026
- Author notification: September 15, 2026
- Camera Ready deadline: September 29, 2026
Regardless of archival plans, authors are encouraged to submit earlier rather than later. All participants (presenters, organizers, and attendees) are required to register for the event. Full details are available on the Call for Participation page.
Preliminary Schedule
TAS will feature invited speakers, paper and spotlight sessions, target-problem working groups, an open-format panel, and a tool and dataset showcase, spread across a two and one-half day program. See the full schedule on the Schedule page.